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The Vocabulary and Methods of Raising Burley Tobacco in Western North Carolina

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16434
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Burley tobacco has long been the chief cash crop grown in the southern Appalachian mountains. Throughout the area one finds a continuity of words and ways involved in burley tobacco production, but there is also colorful variety in local practices and terms.
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